Acanthophyllia deshayesiana (Michelin, 1850) Coral Species Is Not Synonym With Cynarina lacrymalis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
Abstract: Acanthophyllia
deshayesiana has a different habitat with Cynarina lacrymalis in the nature,
but they have same character on living forms, diameter, and height of
corallite. Both of these species are considered synonym, thus it needs
verification study to describe whether it is synonym species or not based on
morphological data. Eleven descriptive characters and seven morphometric
characters were used to verify the synonym species of these coral. Descriptive
data were performed by scoring method, while morphometric data were obtained
from morphometric. Morphometric data were analyzed by Correspondence Analysis
of Principal Coordinates (CAP) and Agglomerative Hierarchical Cluster (AHC),
while descriptive data were analyzed by UPGMA (Unweight Pair Group Method with
Arithmetic Mean). The result showed that both of these coral cannot
differentiate based on morphometric measurement. It can differentiate
significantly based on descriptive characters, so both of these coral are not
synonym.
Penulis: Robba Fahrisy Darus,
Neviaty Putri Zamani, Suharsono, Dedy Duryadi Solihin
Kode Jurnal: jpperikanangg160016
